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901.
by blacksqr 7y ago
https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Who+Uses+Tcl
902.
by blacksqr 7y ago
I find it grimly amusing that the posters here expressing variations on the "this is fine" position are making the exact arguments that market boosters were making before/during the mortgage finance crisis in 2007/2008.
903.
by blacksqr 7y ago
Burry's point is, whatever the percentage of leverage, it's reaching levels that are dangerous for the larger economy.
904.
by blacksqr 7y ago
"Potentially making it worse will be the impossibility of unwinding the derivatives and naked buy/sell strategies used to help so many of these funds pseudo-match flows and prices each and every day. This fundamental concept is th
905.
by blacksqr 7y ago
Burry's point is not that a lot of indexed stocks are relatively illiquid and thus index funds would have a hard time getting out of them in a serious downturn. His point is that the index funds don't own the stocks at all; they t
906.
DMTCP (Distributed MultiThreaded Checkpointing)(dmtcp.sourceforge.net)
1 points by blacksqr 7y ago|0 comments
907.
by blacksqr 7y ago
TL;DR Lee Smolin likes pilot wave theory.
908.
by blacksqr 7y ago
Right, spray it through a platinum screen, and oxygen gas is liberated.
909.
by blacksqr 7y ago
Back in the old days, there was a clearly-defined place in a newspaper for speculation: the op-ed page. Got no problem with it there. The problem comes when you play shell games with news and speculation on the front page.
910.
by blacksqr 7y ago
We might be living in a very different country and world if the New York Times had refrained from speculating on topics like Whitewater, Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, Benghazi...
911.
by blacksqr 7y ago
"I'm beginning to think I can cure a rainy day!"
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by blacksqr 7y ago
Is this for a programming position, or senior management? If the former, tell the best option candidate that the door will always be open for them, then hire one of the runners-up.
913.
by blacksqr 7y ago
It's the old motte-and-bailey argument; the author stands in the bailey and asserts "there is a living God, who created you and cares for you individually, and I have detailed information about this God's nature." When y
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by blacksqr 7y ago
"So potent was the rejuvenating treatment used on the mice that they either died after three or four days from cell malfunction or developed tumors that killed them later." So yeah, pluses and minuses.
915.
by blacksqr 7y ago
Good points... I had free-floating sargassum in mind,which is washing up in volume on beaches around the world, rather than kelp or something that has to be ripped up off the seabed. Sargassum is in a state of hyper-growth around the world.
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by blacksqr 7y ago
Why grow freshwater algae to sequester carbon when there's already a readily available supply of saltwater algae in the form of seaweed? Take seaweed from ocean. Turn it into activated charcoal using solar pyrolysis. Bury the charcoa
917.
by blacksqr 7y ago
"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended." Four years to go... will we make it?
918.
by blacksqr 7y ago
Makes me think of Rupert Sheldrake and his book "The Sense of Being Stared At".
919.
by blacksqr 7y ago
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
920.
by blacksqr 7y ago
Tcl added first-class hash maps in the form of dictionaries several years ago. Tcl also added coroutines and a native object system in the past decade. Tcl has variable trace hooks which can be called whenever an attempt is made to change a
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by blacksqr 7y ago
It's funny, I hear people talk and talk and talk about simplicity in programming, and see post after post about it on HN, and everybody seems to think it's a great idea, until it's staring them in the face.
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Espresso Machine Powered by Tcl/Tk(groups.google.com)
136 points by blacksqr 7y ago|42 comments
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Spin-Seebeck device generates electricity from waste heat (2018)(ucrtoday.ucr.edu)
1 points by blacksqr 7y ago|0 comments
924.
by blacksqr 7y ago
I think the gist of his argument is not that no external objective reality exists, but that it is fundamentally impossible using his model of perception to distinguish an "external reality" from a discrete network of other conscio
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by blacksqr 7y ago
Interview with author (2016): https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-aga... "I have a space X of experiences, a space G of actions, and an algorithm D that lets me choose a new action given my experie
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by blacksqr 7y ago
"jai compiler – not released yet"
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by blacksqr 7y ago
+1 for discovering that a polymer used in diapers for absorbing moisture is a cheap and effective ion-permeable separator membrane.
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by blacksqr 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_wavefunction
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by blacksqr 7y ago
>The issue is that physical properties are by their nature relational, dispositional properties. That is, they describe the way that something is related to other things Author neglects to mention that this may apply to everything except
930.
by blacksqr 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor

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